Sentences with phrase «sky objects for»

Its bright illumination makes stars and planets appear less conspicuous to naked - eye observers, and washes out delicate details in deep - sky objects for those peering through telescopes.

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Just because that something is the second brightest object in the night sky and you've probably seen it just about every single night of your entire life is no excuse for not saying something.

The human conglomerate which the sociologists needed for the furtherance of their speculations and formulations now appears scientifically defined, manifesting itself in its proper time and place, like an object entirely new and yet awaited in the sky of life.

Uefa have now opened up proceedings to charge both clubs with Sky Sports reporting that United are in trouble for allegedly blocking stairways, crowd disturbance and for the throwing of objects.

BLOCK: Well, the appropriately named Matthew Brightman, of Lyndhurst, Ohio, writes this: thank you for telling me what those two immensely bright objects are in the sky.

He found it — a faint, pale dot streaking across the sky — while reviewing images from the university's Pan-STARRS telescope, which searches for near - Earth objects (NEOs) from the mountain Haleakala.

Designed primarily for celestial viewing, this product is equally comfortable scanning the night sky as it is looking at objects here on Earth.

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NASA supports the Spaceguard survey to the tune of $ 4.1 million per year, but that sum of money is not enough to cover the cost of continually monitoring all areas of the sky for near - Earth objects.

Soon after the initial observations of the merger site, the Earth's annual trip around the Sun placed the object too close to the Sun in the sky for X-ray and visible - light telescopes to observe.

Instruments like the 8.4 - meter Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated to begin operation in 2014, will use massive computer power to carry out continuous scans of sky for near - Earth objects, leaving ever fewer patches for amateurs to focus on.

The Moon is the most obvious celestial object in the night sky, of course, and a favorite for amateur astrophotographers.

In September 2002, the telescopes spotted five bursts from a new object called GCRT J1745 - 3009, named for its sky coordinates.

Instead of trying to correlate the directions of the incoming cosmic rays with objects in the sky, they have simply looked for an imbalance in the rays coming from opposite directions.

A team of researchers pointed the telescope at GK Persei, an object that became a sensation in the astronomical world in 1901 when it suddenly appeared as one of the brightest stars in the sky for a few days, before gradually fading away in brightness.

We train our telescopes on small patches of sky for long spells, trying to drink in as much faint light from distant objects as possible.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

In terms of brilliance for size, Venus is by far the mostluminous object in the night sky, so bright it will no doubt inspire aflood of UFO sightings.

«Our goal is to search the sky for these big Kuiper belt objects,» Trujillo says.

Survey telescopes look at much larger areas of the sky — up to half the sky, at any point — than does the Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, which focuses more on individual objects.

The moon is the most recognizable object in the night sky, yet for most people its movements remain a mystery.

According to a report in the newsletter of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, a 3 - kilogram metallic object fell from the sky on the village of Ede, the Netherlands, on 4 March, piercing the ceiling of a post office.

Comprehensive data are given for the brighter stars and deep - sky objects, but the star charts themselves are devoid of coordinate grids and give no impression of scale.

Many will know Newton for his stunning astrophotographs and CCD images of deep - sky objects such as the nebulae and galaxies.

And if you enjoy quests for objects in the night sky, after that you might jet to «My Life as a Comet Hunter,» where David H. Levy describes a «cosmic passion» that's lasted for the past 50 years.

«The NASA - funded Catalina Sky Survey, which has made the majority of NEO discoveries since its inception in 2004, is getting an upgrade,» said Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near - Earth Objects Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Asteroids are discovered by small, dedicated teams of astronomers using optical telescopes that repeatedly scan the sky looking for star - like objects, which change location in the sky slightly over the course of an hour or so.

Astronomers sift through virtually identical images of the sky, looking for moving objects.

Taken together, these findings explain why visual acuity is commonly measured with dark characters on light backgrounds and why visual resolution is lower for lights, as already noted by Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei when judging the size of light objects in paintings and the dark sky.

This general approach of blending the input from dispersed telescopes, called interferometry, offers the potential for vastly enhanced angular resolution — the ability to identify distinct features of an object that are spaced close together on the sky.

For the first time in history, humans knew the stars not just as points on a sky chart but as objects with defined locations in three - dimensional space.

The Zwicky Transient Facility, a robotic camera designed to rapidly scan the sky nightly for objects that move, flash or explode, took its first image on November 1.

For instance, look at the recent use of the Cosmic Evolution Survey, using the Hubble Space Telescope to study gravitational lensings [in which the gravitational pull of galaxies and dark matter bends the light from more distant objects] in an area of the sky nine times the apparent surface area of the full moon.

Sheppard and Trujillo, along with David Tholen of the University of Hawaii, are conducting the largest, deepest survey for objects beyond Neptune and the Kuiper Belt and have covered nearly 10 percent of the sky to date using some of the largest and most advanced telescopes and cameras in the world, such as the Dark Energy Camera on the NOAO 4 - meter Blanco telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime Camera on the 8 - meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii.

The repeating bursts from this object, named FRB 121102 after the date of the initial burst, allowed astronomers to watch for it using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a multi-antenna radio telescope system with the resolving power, or ability to see fine detail, needed to precisely determine the object's location in the sky.

With the discovery of a further «nebula», his third object (globular cluster M3) and his first original discovery, it seems that he undertook a serious scan of the skies for these objects, as they could frequently fool comet discoverers.

Viewed from a planet at Earth's orbital distance around Alpha Centauri A, stellar companion B would provide more light than the full Moon does on Earth as its brightest night sky object, but the additional light at a distance greater than Saturn's orbital distance in the Solar System would not be significant for the growth of Earth - type life.

Scientists often rely on backyard astronomers to patrol the skies for newly appearing pinpoints that are brighter and clearer than the objects around them.

Hubble stared at a certain spot (the Ultra Deep Field) for 100 hours, peering at the sky in infrared in order to catch objects the farthest away [source: Plait].

Astrophotography is a specialized type of photography for recording images of astronomical objects and large areas of the night sky.

The instrument is the «best tool» for picking out dim, extremely distant objects lost in huge swaths of sky, Batygin said.

Lowell started a program using a dedicated camera that would take images of the sky night after night; someone would then painstakingly compare the images to look for moving objects.

«Amazingly, even though the sky is known to be full of transient objects emitting at X - and gamma - ray wavelengths,» NRL astronomer Dr. Joseph Lazio pointed out, «very little has been done to look for radio bursts, which are often easier for astronomical objects to produce.»

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

A new radio telescope array operating at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California has the ability to image the entire sky simultaneously at radio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or explode.

Lead author Dr. Danail Obreschkow, from The University of Western Australia (UWA) node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), said that ten billion years ago the Universe was full of clumpy galaxies, but these developed into more regular objects as they evolved; the majority of stars in the sky today, including our five billion - year - old Sun, were probably born inside these clumpy galaxies.

This formally begins with the selection criteria («We selected galaxy images for this study from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, Abazajian et al. 2009) including all objects classified as Luminous Red Galaxies (LRG) that have a spectroscopic redshift measurement.

These projects will provide lists of target objects around the sky for brief observations when high - priority projects leave gaps in the telescope schedule, allowing 10 - 12 minutes of observation at intermediate places in the sky.

In his DESI - related research, Meisner helps to ensure that the WISE images are useful for selecting sky objects that DESI can fix on when it begins operating in 2019.

New information provided by a worldwide network of sensors has allowed scientists to refine their estimates for the size of the object that entered the atmosphere and disintegrated in the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, at 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15).